Charles Cioffi, the veteran character actor who portrayed lots of cops and crooks in projects including Klute, Shaft, Get Christie Love! and The X-Files, died Friday at his home in Marina del Rey, his family announced. He was 90.
The New York native also appeared seven times on Broadway — he played John Hancock in the musical 1776 that ran from 1969-72 — and was in such soap operas as Ryan’s Hope, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives (as the revenge-seeking bomber businessman Ernesto Toscano) and All My Children.
He also portrayed Tom Cruise’s widowed father in All the Right Moves (1983).
Charles Michael Cioffi was born in New York on Oct. 31, 1935. He attended Michigan State University, made his professional acting debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and made it to Broadway for the first time in 1968 in King Lear for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center.
In 1971 movies, he portrayed the killer stalking the call girl Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute and Lt. Vic Androzzi, the NYC cop who reluctantly deals with Richard Roundtree’s private eye, in Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks.
